Cronin, Mary Ann (later Mrs Walter) (1871 - 1974)

The family established a farm at Kojonup
in 1861, then Pallinup in 1863, and then the farming
property 'Glencoe' near Katanning in 1873.

In response
to a notice placed in a WA newspaper by Mueller, Mary Ann's
father encouraged her to collect MEL specimens. She did
so at the sources of the Pallinup River 1887; sources of the
Blackwood River, 1888-1890, 1893; upper Blackwood River,
1889; Dumbleyung Lake, 1889; east of Geraldton, 1889; near Lake Wagin 1889–1890, 1895; Bunkin near Wagin, 1890-
1891; Lake Wagin, 1890, 1893-1896; King George Sound
1892; between the upper Blackwood River and Lake Lefroy,
1893-1894; Glencoe [now Katanning], 1894; Moorrarrie
[?=Moorarie Homestead] 1894; and interior of south-west
Australia, 1894.